we love the web email us go to messageboard newsletter archive home NEWSLETTER: "THE ONE WHERE THE CAST OF FRIENDS COOK AND EAT A DOG" next issue » « previous issue This Week: * INTERACTIVE - Find out what celebs are 'doing' * NEW IMAGE CHALLENGE - Art on a budget * STAR TREK SINGS - the fabulous results ------------------------------------------------- ________ ____ __ ___ ____/ _)|_ // /_/ _ | "We're saving the web, ___/ _ |/_ > This week: Art on a budget << How is the art world coping with the cost of living crisis? Does the girl now have a plastic earring? Have the Nighthawks resorted to getting wrecked in a Wetherspoons? http://b3ta.com/challenge/artonabudget/popular ------------------------------------------------- : WHAT HAPPENED NEXT Follow ups on older stories * LINK INCEPTION - Last week we mentioned that Mj Hibbett of Hey Hey 16k has a book out, and he's written a bit covering that we covered him, so that now we're covering that. Phew. https://www.mjhibbett.co.uk/blog/showblog.php * BUY SOME ART - And in a follow up to last week's 'Star Trek goes pop' image challenge, Happy Toast has made his Revolver image for sale as canvas print. https://www.redbubble.com/i/canvas-print/SciFi-Alb... ------------------------------------------------- : STAR IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE Some ideas to start you off * MISS YOU DAD - just thinking about all the old ravers dying. There's loads of youtube comments under classic tracks going "this was my dad's favourite track - miss you dad" - and how reading those out over moody synths would probably be quite affecting. * CHAT-HRH - Matt Round writes, "If you need a suggestion for the newsletter: replace the royals' jobs with AI instead of everyone else's, probably just need to say 'What do you do?' & wave a lot." Maybe it could occasionally lay an illuminati egg. * FLICK THE BEAN, THE COMPUTER GAME - draw people in with the rude title, and then give them a game where you have to flick baked-beans off your plate into the faces of other dinners in your local cafe. Send us a message and we can promise that your editor, Rob Manuel, will read it. He might just shrug, but he'll read it. https://b3ta.com/mailus/ ------------------------------------------------- : PATREON THANKS We love all these people. 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